ZACHARY TOLIVER: Thirty barn owls — extremely smart, empathetic animals who use tools and care for their young — are being held captive in a Johns Hopkins University laboratory run by Shreesh Mysore. They will be tortured in invasive brain experiments and killed because of a congressionally mandated death sentence, which PETA is arguing in … Continue reading BARN-BURNING BATTLE BREWING: Animal Rights Group Launches Historic Constitutional Lawsuit